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South Africa: In Every Third Taxi, Someone Has TB - Study
West Cape News, 3 November 2011
The City of Cape Town has welcomed the results of a seven-year long Tuberculosis study, which showed that household counseling had reduces the prevalence of the epidemic by 22% in… Read more »
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Southern Africa: New Hope for Tackling TB in the Community
Health-e, 2 November 2011
The results of a seven-year-long study into TB in the Western Cape and Zambia shows how home visits by counsellors can dramatically reduce TB prevalence. Read more »
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South Africa: MDG's - Shifting the Focus From Quantity to Quality
BuaNews, 28 October 2011
South Africa may be on track to achieve five of its eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, but serious problems in health and education, if not attended to soon, may… Read more »
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South Africa: The Lancet - Times for Zero Death From Tuberculosis
Health-e, 23 October 2011
TB and HIV activists have called for a major overhaul of the bodies responsible for turning the TB epidemic tide. Read more »
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Zambia: UTH Embarks On New TB Diagnostic Method
Times of Zambia, 18 October 2011
The University Teaching Hospital (UTH) has embarked on a project of evaluating new and practical tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic methods using a loop-medicated isothermal… Read more »
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Zambia: National TB Programme Records Positive Results
Times of Zambia, 15 March 2011
Ministry of Health director of public health and research Victor Mukonka has said the successful implementation of the National TB Programme has prevented the development of… Read more »